I assure you, it’s a lot better than it used to be
you don’t even have to use AMD drivers, you can just rock Mesa and have good OGL performance (yes, Windows applications that use OGL run better in Linux than native)
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oh I’ve been Xorg edging for years, I know how it goes, my glxgears are in full priapism
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yall are scaring me with this moon talk, if I get one of these cards in my cart I’m buying and figuring it out later. if I gotta scalp it after the fact, so be it
Went looking and I don’t have a fiber ISP option – juicing cable to get 90 Mbps down/8 Mbps up feels like that Corvette that had a carburetor way after it should not have.
Neither do I have 5G coverage despite my phone now supporting (and wasting space on) millimeter wave for when I need to stream Netflix at a football stadium.
LTE does 80 Mbps down/3 Mbps up so maybe I do need the supercookie nightmare wireless home internet future.
Girlfriend and I just recently got on a better plan and I can now download at a bit over 30MB/s. It rules. Wasn’t as mind blowing as the first time I got 100 Mbps years ago though and I feel like having a Gbps already… Way too expensive right now though
virgin fibre to the cabinet here starts at 100 down, 10 up
don’t think the upload speeds get much better as you go up through the packages either
we went through a six+ month period where they made some kind of fuck up and we were getting 700/10, love it
I’m not 100% why you’d get one of these ARM Macs. If you’re using it for code or media work, you don’t want to be beholden to Rosetta 2 or Apple’s certificates, the server for which apparently went down on Friday. You want the last fastest Intel Mac before work shunts you over to Dell.
If you’re not, then an iPad runs Office, most iOS apps, has a detachable keyboard and a touchscreen with a good stylus, weighs less/smaller for the 11" variants, etc. etc. Much better suited to people occupied by writing imo but I have a Surface Book.
No doubt in my mind that an iPad Air with the pencil and an external keyboard is a better computer for me than the M1 Air. I will be baffled if they don’t make a Mac with touch/stylus input.
idk, ipados is pretty handcuffed compared to macos
Sure, but I don’t know if many people bothered by iPad OS aren’t also bothered by MacOS in general let alone ARM Macs at this point. I know there are Mac diehards but for general computing I think most people either: need x86 for work or wouldn’t mind using something more like their phone (e.g. college student, light computing office worker, etc.).
Anecdotally I’ve seen a big increase in Chromebooks and iPads during the three years of bad MacBooks.
but really where this should go is toward convergence. ipads and macbooks should both run a version of macos and you just pick and chose between keyboard/touch/pencil support, paying appropriately. but that won’t happen because apple is allergic to user choice.
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yeah we’re at the point where a lot of normies i would just suggest buy whichever macbook they like the look of from 2006-2015 or so i’d sooner recommend a chromebook or something
it wasn’t down, just rammed to the point it was slow as fuck. you can block ocsp.apple.com in hosts or pihole etc. and the check will just silently fail and let anything run
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hear hear.
reviews/benchmarks are out and it seems like they only gave people units if their websites don’t include charts or graphs but The Verge says they got 38 FPS out of the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark running in Rosetta 2 on the integrated graphics. Holy fuck that’s black magic.
Still don’t think IT departments are going to be happy with these things.
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Apple’s signing nonsense notwithstanding, I think you’re overestimating the extent to which anyone “needs” x86 at this point – because apple frontloads compatibility breakages so much, there is already very little you can’t do on one of these that you could do on an equivalent Big Sur Intel Mac, and soon there will be next to nothing. Also, multitasking and dev on an iPad is still nowhere close to on a Mac.
Oh, totally, no developer should have an iPad, but a word writing gremlin like me is perfectly served by the iOS version of Office and Safari.
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not being able to have at least four apps on the screen at once means I basically can’t use the computer
like I won’t defend their many many stupid choices but the product about which the stupid choices have been made remains the far superior one
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needing to move as much as I do mentally is also frustrating when you’re currently getting symmetrical 1gbit for $60
somehow AMD’s launch was even worse than any of the nvidia cards. they never even showed up as in stock anywhere. went from no listing to sold out. haven’t even seen confirmation of any human beings getting them apart from people AMD apparently randomly emailed links to an hour or so before “launch?”
We got a cheap shitty LED USB string to put behind the TV that was way too long and slowly cutting it down until it wasn’t as bright as having the lights on has been interesting. Thought I might have fried the USB ports on my TV but turning it off and on fixed it.
We ordered a second string because the first’s tape was screwed up.
Gotta say LED string behind the TV is a good idea. You also absolutely do not need to circle the whole TV (40 inch over here). We cut this first one down from 3 meters to probably 1.3 and it was still a little too bright.
a lot of those need more than 1a@5v, be careful
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Why do this though? Is this just for people who like accessorizing their apartment with pretty lights or does it enhance the TV viewing experience somehow? I’ve never seen this myself and I imagine it being distracting, actually…?